"BACKSTAGE AT THE BIG SHOW" Excerpts
from Debbie David's Autobiography

In 1991 I was working as an
ACTOR on a Big Movie at Warner Bros. in a Masquerade Ball Scene.

The Movie was 'Batman Returns' With Danny DeVito
and Tim Burton directing. The Wardrobe Dept. had several actors dressed up as World Famous Landmarks... there was a
girl who was in a dress with a metal Eiffel Tower on her head. Another Guy was in a Dark Tux with the Roman Coliseum on his
head. I was in a White Tuxedo with The London Clock Tower on my Head. you can clearly see me coming down the steps in
the Scene. It took About Five Full Days to Film that Scene.

One Day I said to Michelle Pfeiffer on the Set,

"You know they Don't Call
Me Big Ben Because of this Clock on My Head".

She Cracked UP! She says, "Oh you got to tell that to Michael".
Michelle Pfeiffer runs over to Michael Keaton. I tell Michael Keaton... "You Know They Don't Call Me Big Ben
Because of this Clock on My Head". He Cracks UP! "Oh You got to Tell that to Tim". Burton Comes over I
tell him the joke. He Looks at me like I am an Idiot, Rolls his Eyes, and says, " Can We Get Back to WORK on MY Movie"?

Some Ancient

HERSTORY...

The Best of Both Worlds!

It Took Forever to pose for this.

Hermaphroditos
was the son of Aphrodite, goddess of Beauty, Lust, and Love.

Hermaphroditos
was the son of HERMES, God of
mischief, cunning, wit, and trickery.

Hermaphroditos
wasa minor deity of BISEXUALITY, and Effeminacy.

According to
Ovid, Born a remarkably handsome boy, he was transformed into an Androgynous
being by union with the Water Nymph, Salmacis. His name is the basis for the
word Hermaphrodite.

He has long been a symbol of bisexuality or
effeminacy, and was portrayed in Greco-Roman art as a Female figure with Male
Genitals.

Theophrastus’
account also suggest a link between Hermaphriditos and the institution of
Marriage. The reference to the fourth day of the month is telling: this is the
luckiest day to have a wedding. Hermaphriditos’ association with marriage seems
to have been that, by embodyingboth
masculine and feminine qualities, he symbolized the coming together of men and
women in sacred union. Another factor
linking Hermaphriditos to weddings was his parent’s role in protecting and
blessing brides.

Hermaphriditos
name is derived from those of
his parents Hermes and Aphrodite. The Phallic God PRIAPUS was the son of Hermes
in some accounts, and in other accounts the youthful God of Desire--Eros.

Ovid’s account
relates that Hermaphriditos was nursed by naiads in the caves of Mount Ida, a
sacred mountain in Phrygia (present Day Turkey). At the age of fifteen, he grew
bored with his surroundings and traveled to the cities of Lycia and Caria. It
was in the woods ofCaria, near
Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey)that he encountered the Nymph, Salmacis, in her pool. She was overcome
by her lust for the boy, who was very handsome but still very young. Salmacis
tried to seduce him, but was rejected. When he thought her to be gone,
Hermaphriditos undressedand entered the
waters of the empty pool. Salmacis sprang out from behind a tree and jumped
into the pool. She wrapped herself around the boy, forcibly kissing him and
touching his breast.While he struggled,
she called out to the Gods that they should never part. Her wish was granted,
and their bodies blended into one form, “a creature of both sexes”.Hermaphriditos
prayed to Hermes and Aphrodite
that anyone else who bathed in the pool would be similarly transformed, and his
wish was granted.

Maybe
YOU are like Hermaphriditos, when you
were created you feel as if you have both masculine and feminine qualities,
either physically or through your personality.This combination of both male and female identities is NOT a CURSE, but
a BLESSING by GOD. It is sometimes very difficult for transgender and
transsexual people to be accepted in society because most people are ignorant
or have been taught to hate what they cannot understand.

It is often very
difficult for the Transperson to find
LOVE. One feels as if they need to hide their TRUE Identity to people upon
first meeting them for fear of retaliation and discrimination.There IS Fear and
Discrimination against the
Trans-Gendered.

One cannot find
LOVE without truly loving themselves first, both on the inside and the outside.
This is because, other people sense our insecurities and reflect back onto us
what we show them. If you are embarrassed or ashamed of of your sexuality or
your gender expression—your lover will reflect that same shame back onto you.
If you do not think that you are beautiful, your lover will not either.Try to
be Confident , Proud , andLOVE YOURSELF!

God made you just the way you are. God’s gift of your
duality is a blessing not a punishment. Don’t let anyone tell you that God does
not love his Trans-Gendered Children – God most Certainly DOES and...

GOD LOVES
YOU TOO!

Biblical and Babylonian HERSTORY!

BACKSTAGE AT THE BIG SHOW!

Sumerian,
Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Hittite literary records abundantly document the presence of male, transvestite eunuchs
who served the goddess Ishtar (or her counterparts in other cultures)

In Babylonia and Assyria, cultic servants known as assinnu,
kurgarru and kulu'u (pl.
assinnutu, kurgarrutu, kulu'utu)
performed ecstatic dance, music and plays, wore make-up like women, and carried masks and weapons.

In Sumer, they
were given the cuneiform names of UR.SAL ("dog/man-woman"), KUR.GAR.RA (also described as a man-woman), and GIS.DUR
("penis-buttocks").

Nissenen believes that the expression that Ishtar had "transformed their masculinity into femininity,"
along with the symbolic cutting weapons they carried, strongly suggest that these cultic servants were eunuchs; and application
of the derogative term "dog" to the assinnu
shows a certain scorn that these eunuchs suffered for their emasculation, even though they were dedicated to the goddess.

Such
clues, albeit scattered, together point persuasively to an assinnu who offered himself as a receptive sexual partner to male worshipers, in the
temple or a nearby tavern, for blessings to be gained from penetrating a servant of Ishtar, goddess of love and war.

No wonder Job characterized
these male cult prostitutes as persons who generally "die in their youth" (Job 36:14).

Such a characterization would make little sense if
cultic servants played no sexual role; moreover, this reference in Job, apart from the Deuteronomic tradition, cannot be dismissed
(as some interpreters have suggested for Deuteronomic tradition) as later imaginary construct or literary fiction.

A vivid image of one of these
male cultic prostitutes appears in a terra-cotta (baked-clay) relief, photographed in Ziegler (plate 168). This piece, dated
ca. 2000 B.C., was found in the ruins of the Sumerian city of Urek (called Erech in Gen 10:10 and Warka today in Iraq), located
ca. 40 miles NW of Ur, Abraham's birthplace.

The scene shows a standing nude male (but wearing a cap) penetrating, from behind, a cultic male prostitute,
also nude, and bending over to sip beer from a jar on the floor as he carries on business. The fact that the male prostitute
is beardless reveals that he is a eunuch.

(This piece is part of the collections of the State Museums of Berlin (in the Pergamum
and Antiquities Museum).